On Tue, 25 Jan 2000, Donn Miller wrote:
> Nick Hibma wrote:
>
> > The output of my ESS 1869 stutters whenever there is no new data fed to
> > it. For example pressing Ctrl-Z, or heavy disk usage (normally making
> > mpg123 jump). The stuttering is repetition of one short fragment of
> > about a quarter of a second, indefinitely
>
> I can confirm this. Whenever there is any substantial disk activity,
> the output of mpg123 starts to jump and quiver (and sometimes skip).
> Why would disk activity do this? Must be an issue with bus latency,
> because the ata and sound driver are trying to access the bus at the
> same time. Also, it seems like certain graphics ops in XFree86 3.9.17
> make mpg123 jump and skip. Strangely, RealPlayer doesn't suffer from
> these problems.
I too notice these problems of mpg123 skipping during disk activity or X
graphics ops but I have always had these problems, both with -STABLE and
-CURRENT. I notice this with xmms too. So this is nothing new.
--
Regards, Devin.
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